I'm using xpdf to read journal article pdf files. I am also trying to use gs to merge articleswith their supplemental data into one big pdf rather than as two separate pdf files.

I get errors with some non-standard pdf files (what is the point of having a standard when peopleignore it?) Here is an example where gs fails due to a lack of embedded fonts:

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:$ gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=science316p1039S.pdf science316p1039.pdf \ > science316p1039suppl.pdf **** Warning: An error occurred while reading an XREF table. **** The file has been damaged. This may have been caused **** by a problem while converting or transfering the file. **** Ghostscript will attempt to recover the data. **** Warning: Fonts with Subtype = /TrueType should be embedded. But TimesNewRomanPSMT is not embedded. **** Warning: Fonts with Subtype = /TrueType should be embedded. But TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT is not embedded. **** Warning: Fonts with Subtype = /TrueType should be embedded. But TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT is not embedded. **** Warning: Fonts with Subtype = /TrueType should be embedded. But TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT is not embedded.

Thanks! I grabbed the package and it contains the TTF files and the legal stuff but noinstructions. Sorry for the noob question but I don't want to make things worse on my VL5.9 system. I installed fontfix-1.0-noarch-2vl59 on my system if that makes any difference.

Where do I install these TTF files so they are available to xpdf and gs? I checked /usr/X11R6/share/fonts/TTF/ and there are already a bunch of similar fonts available.Do I also edit some config file to use these fonts?

I think it's still good practice to update your font cache after installing new fonts using the 'fc-cache' command (as root, probably). Whether or not this will help bad_gui's situation - I don't know but perhaps.